About us

PHE Ethiopia Consortium exists to enhance and promote the integration of population health and environment at various levels for sustainable development.

» Goals

Support the development of Ethiopia, and
contribute to the success of Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation plan (GTP) and the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)

» values

Sustained commitment to PHE integration: PHE Ethiopia Consortium and its members are committed to the integration of PHE as a main focus area of intervention.

Respect for nature and human well-being: PHE Ethiopia Consortium strongly believes that human beings are the main focus of development interventions. However, every development intervention has to ensure the healthiness and sustainability of the environment.

Scale up through partnership and coalition building: Integration of PHE is based on partnerships and coalition-building with stakeholders, government bodies and non-stateactors. PHE Ethiopia Consortium seeks to scale up interventionsby fostering partnerships among government, memberorganizations and development partners.

Equity: PHE Ethiopia Consortium works with people from all different walks of life. The views and active participation of people is encouraged despite their age, ability, or any other differences.

Accountability and transparency: PHE Ethiopia Consortium strongly believes in taking full responsibility for its work and builds efficient systems and strategies that clearly show its work transparently to its members and others.

Community Empowerment: PHE Ethiopia Consortium’s member organizations and partners need to support community empowerment initiatives on PHE and need to work together by coordinating their activities with others in the community with indigenous knowledge so that the interest of the grassroots community can be fulfilled in an integrated and sustainable way. Community participation enables integration to come alive and promotes creativity, imagination, innovation, and sustainability. Therefore, we need to develop community empowerment model sites of members and partners.

• Generate active
cooperation with national, regional an international partners and
research centers, and provide important sources of solidarity and
cooperation for national level developmental efforts and lessons.

• Help narrow the communication gap between population, health,
gender and environmental organizations and activities.

• Serve as a powerful learning forum, because of the interchange
with organizations working on PHE issues.

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Develop coordination and collaboration between organizations and to
strengthen access to information and resources.

• Increase visibility and success of developmental initiatives and
campaigns.

» Ad-hoc Member Organizations

Lem Ethiopia: the Environment & Development Society of
Ethiopia, Chair

EngenderHealth Ethiopia, Vice-Chair

Addis Ababa University (AAU)

Arba Minch University

Consortium of Reproductive Health Associations (CORHA)

Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)

Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre/Network (HoA-REC/N)

» Founding Members and Partners in the
Establishment and Launching Conference